Foundational Skills Session Two Phonological and Phonemic Awareness October 2017

Building a Solid Foundation for Reading Easier Phonological Awareness Words, compound words, rhyming, alliteration Syllables, onset and rime Phonemic Awareness Segmentation, blending, manipulation No letters, only sounds!   More Difficult

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Phonemic Awareness: Elkonin Sound Boxes Student draws 3 boxes on wipe-off board Each student receives 3 counters  

Elkonin Sound Boxes Teacher says a word with 3 phonemes. Students repeat the word. Teacher pronounces individual sounds of the word. For each phoneme, children move a counter to each box in a left-to-right progression. Children say the word again, sliding their finger below the boxes from left to right.  

Elkonin Sound Boxes Teacher says “mat.” Students repeat the word. As teacher says individual sounds /m/ /a/ /t/, students move individual counters into the boxes.  

Elkonin Sound Boxes Students say the word “mat,” sliding a finger below the boxes from left to right while blending the sounds.  

Elkonin Sound Boxes Include words where one phoneme is represented by more than one letter, such as “duck” and “shirt.”  

Video of Elkonin Boxes  

Additional Elkonin Box Activities Ask children to listen for a certain sound in a word. Say a word that has that sound. Children place a counter in the first box if they hear the sound in the beginning of the word, in the middle box if they hear the sound in the middle of the word, and in the last box if they hear it at the end of the word. Where do you hear /p/ in the word “soap”?

Example Teacher: “Listen for the /m/ sound.” Teacher pronounces the word “lime.” Students are asked to put counter in the box showing where the /m/ sound is heard in “lime.”

Manipulating Phonemes Using Foamy Squares (bite) (fight)

Manipulating Phonemes Using Foamy Squares (fight) (fine)

Phonemic Awareness Picture Sorts Use clear column heading pictures (not ambiguous ones) Discuss each picture that will be sorted to be sure students know what the picture represents Model the process of saying the word, stretching it out, then deciding where it belongs

Resources for Phonemic Awareness Picture Sorts Incredible wealth of resources available through FCRR Words Their Way provides detailed information about determining students’ needs and tailoring sorts to those needs Words Their Way is a stand-alone text that provides hands-on sorting activities designed to help students develop as readers and writers. A developmental spelling inventory will help you identify where to begin lessons with different groups of students. WTW provides both picture and word sorting cards along with routines and teaching strategies that support the transition from invented to conventional spelling.

“General Education Leadership Network” Resources Essential Instructional Practices in Early Literacy Pre-K K-3

“What Works Clearinghouse” Resources Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade

Relevant Sections of “No More Teaching a Letter a Week” Page 65-66 Appendix B: Read-Alouds that support wordplay and poetry

Questions? If you have additional questions about foundational skills, please contact: Michelle Platzer or Meg Bowen michelle.platzer@ocps.net marguerite.bowen@ocps.net, Extension 200-2532 or 200-2788 Don’t forget, there are many resources available on the curriculum pages of ims.ocps.net, including phonological awareness continuums, and phonemic awareness and phonics progressions in the section above the CRMs for kindergarten and first grade. Additionally, there are many lesson plans within the CRMS that focus on foundational skills. More are being added as they are written and vetted. Finally, please check out the elementary curriculum and instruction course where even more resources are housed.